PERFORMANCE EDGE - Key Persons

Mr. Ashim Ghosh, B.Tech (IIT- Kharagpur), PGDM(IIMA), M.Sc. Systems (London)Engineer from IIT Kharagpur, Management graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad and MSc. in Systems from London - comes with over two decades of multi-faceted experience in the IT industry across Europe, USA and India. His consulting career with Cap Gemini and International Computers, based at London for over a decade, gave him tremendous depth and international exposure to the best of current world class practices and standards. In India, he has worked in senior roles ranging from Director, VP, and Consultant to CEO & MD with leading India based corporates including TCG, Kirloskars and Infosys Technologies among others. Ashim's varied roles and geographies throughout his career, has helped him develop immense breadth in management of people and companies through projects, consulting and training. Ashim invests his vast experience to advise organizations to build Skills and Competencies specific to industries in people. Ashim is accredited for administering the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® and is a qualified Lead Assessor for TickIT

Job Titles:

• Fellow - Doctorate in Management

Dr. Saleha Ahmad , M.A,, Fellow - Doctorate in Management (IMD, Gurgaon) - Dr. Saleha Ahmad is organizational behaviour (OB) consultant, executive learning facilitator for senior leaders and a certified executive coach. Dr. Saleha Ahmad, M.A, (Gold Medalist), Fellow - Doctorate (IMD, Gurgaon) Dr. Saleha Ahmad is organizational behaviour (OB) consultant, executive learning facilitator for senior leaders and a certified executive coach. She has over 30 years' leadership experience, with more than 18 years heading business positions (including country-head for SBI ePay) and a rich experience of 14 years in executive education including Director, State Bank Institute of Leadership (SBIL). She is MA in English Literature (Gold Medalist) from AMU, Aligarh and Fellow (Doctorate) in Management from MDI Gurgaon. She is certified administrator of personality profile Workplace Big 5 from Paradigm Personality Labs, USA and a certified coach from CLI Canada. She has a certificate in designing and implementing competency assessment and development centers from TVRLS, India. She also has a Trainer Certificate (Train the Trainer) from Association for Talent Development (ATD), USA. She has over 30 years' leadership experience, with more than 18 years heading business positions (including country-head for SBI ePay) and a rich experience of 14 years in executive education including Director, State Bank Institute of Leadership (SBIL). She is MA in English Literature (Gold Medalist) from AMU, Aligarh and Fellow (Doctorate) in Management from MDI Gurgaon. She is certified administrator of personality profile Workplace Big 5 from Paradigm Personality Labs, USA and a certified coach from CLI Canada. She has a certificate in designing and implementing competency assessment and development centers from TVRLS, India. She also has a Trainer Certificate (Train the Trainer) from Association for Talent Development (ATD), USA. Her expertise includes 1. Designing executive learning workshops in (OB area) and Organization Development (OD) interventions. She has designed and delivered hundreds of executive education programmes in the OB area to several thousand executives from SBI, public and private sector banks. While in SBIL, she has designed leadership workshops for top and senior executives of several organizations in BFSI sector and overseen their effective delivery through her team. 2. Administering and processing of psychometric instruments. This gives her the unique skill of understanding personality and giving individual level interventions. She has also administered the Workplace Big Five Profile, of Paradigm Personality Lab, USA to over a hundred senior executives, giving them valuable insights into personality awareness. 3. Her experience in executive coaching includes coaching and development of more than 80 executives over a number of years. 4. Human Process lab facilitation is another rare and valuable skill possessed by Dr. Saleha. She has the experience of facilitating 12 human process labs. 5. Dr. Saleha is an inspired thinker and an author on management science. Fourteen of her articles have been published, of which five have been published internationally in renowned journals and books. She has several MOOC courses to her credit, including two on edX. Visit her profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/saleha-ahmad-188b59b/

Gautam Ghosh B.Tech ( IIT Kanpur ) PGDM ( IIMC ) B.Tech ( IIT Kanpur ) PGDM ( IIMC ) is an Electronic Engineer from IIT Kanpur and a PGDM from IIM Calcutta. He has over 25 years' professional experience in Sales & Marketing, Strategic Planning and General Management in MNCs and professionally managed Indian companies... Know More Gautam Ghosh B.Tech ( IIT Kanpur ) PGDM ( IIMC ) is an Electronic Engineer from IIT Kanpur and a PGDM from IIM Calcutta. He has over 25 years' professional experience in Sales & Marketing, Strategic Planning and General Management in MNCs and professionally managed Indian companies such as Grindwell Norton (now part of the St. Gobain Group), Alstom, DLF Universal, Indian Oxygen (now Linde India) and Hutch Telecom ( now Vodafone ). He has since transitioned into management academics, and has been teaching Marketing and Strategy for the last 14 years. He is presently working as Director of Thiagarajar School of Management Madurai-an AICTE approved and NBA accredited B-school with a 54-year heritage-in addition to being a Visiting/Guest faculty at a number of leading B-schools such as IIM Kashipur, XLRI Jamshedpur, IIFT Kolkata and the Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) of IIT Kharagpur. TSM Madurai has recently been ranked15th pan-India and the best private B-school in South India, by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), a Ministry of HRD initiative. Prof. Ghosh has also, over the years, conducted numerous in-house and cross-company management training programmes and workshops in Marketing and Strategy for executives in the private and public sectors, as well as for the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in addition to consulting in the areas of marketing strategy and business analytics. Close me! Sujit Sen B.Sc., L.L.B, PGD XLRI Mr. Sujit Sen-B.Sc., L.L.B, PGD (HONS) PM & IR (XLRI) Consultant (HR & IR), Total Experience over 38 years Formerly Sr. VP-HR Bata India Ltd., also worked as Vice President- HR - Shaw Wallace & Co., GM- HR - Britannia Industries Limited and Branch Manager in British Oxygen Limited (IOL)... Know More

During his initial banking career with HSBC India he headed HSBC India's Forex & Money Market operations, launched HSBC's thrust into Consumer Banking and NRI Services, and was the CEO of the British Bank of the Middle East in India. Thereafter he progressed his career in the Middle East with major banks in the areas of Corporate banking, Trade Finance, Treasury and Risk management. Mr Banerjee sees Performance Edge as a conduit for sharing his vast experience and knowledge with corporate managers so as to enhance their skills in critical areas. Close me!

Mr. Ashim Ghosh, B.Tech (IIT- Kharagpur), PGDM(IIMA), M.Sc. Systems (London) Engineer from IIT Kharagpur, Management graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad and MSc. in Systems from London - comes with over two decades of multi-faceted experience in the IT industry across Europe... Know More

has 36 years experience in Sales, Marketing and General Management with leading Indian Companies and MNC. His exposure includes Consumer Durables, Office Equipment, Building Materials, Software Sales & Marketing and Retail. Mukesh spent 17 years in Godrej & Boyce, starting as Management Traineee, worked in various assignments and finally as Business Head of the Electronic Typewriter Business. He then worked as Executive Vice President and Head of Ceramic Tiles Business, Spartek Ceramics India Limited and as Whole-time Director and Head of Polaris Retail Infotech Limited where he was responsible for new software products launches. Subsequently he was with Oracle India as Executive Director for 9 years in charge of developing Oracle Retail software business in India and other countries in the Indian subcontinent. He is a Member of CII National Committee of Retailing and FICCI Retail Committee. His breadth of experience includes world class Consultative Selling Skills, Key Account Management, Sales Negotiations, Distribution Channel Management and Management of Sales Organization.

Job Titles:

• Executive Director

Executive Director, co-founded NR Performance Edge Consultants Pvt. Ltd in 2005 with a view to transform the manner in which Management Development Programs are conducted in India. He has put into practice years of experience with leading global organizations to design and deliver high impact workshops. He works in the area of Leadership Development and Executive Coaching. In the past 12 years , he has conducted more than 300 Open Public Programs in the Top 6 Metros with participants from more than 350 leading organizations plus another 250 + in-company workshops. Nabendu's assignments includes Leadership Development with the No1 Indian Corporate in the areas of Banking, Software, Commercial Vehicles, Media , Tyres, Telecom, Consumer Durables, Accounting as well many other leading Corporates , both Indian and MNCs. As an Executive Coach to Senior Managers from top Global Firms, he has helped them to develop their Leadership Skills by building competencies and bringing about lasting behavioral change. Nabendu Gupta has 28 years of corporate experience in India and overseas (prior to launching Performance EDGE) after his Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta. He has worked in Sales, Marketing and General Management with the Tatas( Product Executive) , Unilever ( Area Sales Manager, Product Manager, Senior Product Manager and Branch Manager ) and Reckitt & Colman, where he was General Manager, Delhi. He has subsequently worked as Vice President (Marketing) Reliance Telecom, Senior Vice President (Consumer Products), Pidilite Industries & Chief Executive, Business Standard Ltd, when it was a JV with Financial Times, London. He has attended several Leadership and Advanced Management Development Programs in the US/UK and Singapore. He has a Certificate in Executive Coaching from the Indian School of Business , Hyderabad ( where he was trained by the world's top Executive Coach , Dr Marshall Goldsmith) and is a practicing Executive Coach. Nabendu Gupta, since 2019 runs Performance Edge - Leadership Coaching and Development. Close me!

Mr. Rahul Goswami, B.Com (Hons), PGDM (IIMC) has over 3 decades of rich industrial experience. After an initial two and half years with the Power Engineering Company BHEL, he spent over twenty eight years with Ranbaxy, both overseas and in India. His recent senior... has over 3 decades of rich industrial experience. After an initial two and half years with the Power Engineering Company BHEL, he spent over twenty eight years with Ranbaxy, both overseas and in India. His recent senior management assignments, with global leadership and developmental responsibilities, included Corporate and Business Finance, Information Technology, Strategic Sourcing and Strategic Planning. He has held the position of VP-Finance, VP-Strategic Material Sourcing, VP-Strategic Planning & CIO in Ranbaxy. He has been a key participant in several Organization Development initiatives in the course of Ranbaxy's journey of internationalization and industry leadership. His roles have invariably been at the forefront of seminal industry defining changes initiated in this journey. He has started a consulting practice, StratVi Consulting, in 2008. The practice covers areas in Corporate and Business Strategy, Finance, IT and Organization Development. He is based out of Gurgaon. Close me!

Job Titles:

• Executive Director, Co - Founded NR Performance Edge Consultants Pvt. Ltd in 2005. He Works in the Area of Organization Change Management, Team Effectiveness and Capacity Building

Executive Director, co-founded NR Performance Edge Consultants Pvt. Ltd in 2005. He works in the area of Organization Change Management, Team Effectiveness and Capacity Building. He is a Master in Management Studies with over 16 years corporate experience in Sales, Marketing and General Management with the Unilever group in India and Overseas. He was overseas in his last assignment with Unilever. Rahul Sarin has been associated for over 12 years in designing and delivering customized learning interventions in India and Overseas. He has worked closely with leading global training organizations and extensively used Experiential Methodology to deliver learning and drive development initiatives across geographies and cultures. Rahul has been extensively involved in design and delivery of customized competency based management development programs for leading domestic and multinational corporates. He has worked closely with learning and development team of many leading corporates to deliver series of customized interventions for their leadership & management levels and this includes organizations from sectors as diverse as Automobile, Apparels, Aviation, Banking, Chemicals, Consulting, Construction, Credit Rating, Engineering, Financial Services, Infrastructure, IT, ITES, Life-sciences, Logistic, Machinery, Media, Metals, Packaging, Pharmaceutical, Power, Trading, Telecom, Utility Services, White Goods etc., sectors. Apart from customized interventions, Rahul conducts series of open public management workshops which have been attended by participants from over 300 leading corporates. Rahul also consults organizations in areas of enhancing enterprise value, strategic alignment, capacity building, and guiding to improve performance to higher orbit. Rahul Sarin, since 2019 runs Performance Edge - Leadership Learning and Development.

Job Titles:

• Fellow
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Mr. Ramesh Narayan is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has been in Practice of the Profession for the last 22 years. He has been chiefly associated with organizations like Hindustan Unilever Limited as a resource person for several of their function and Units across India and Globally. He has over time through himself and his firm led and conducted Sarbanes Oxley compliance for various Unilever companies in South East Asia, Africa, Europe and Whole of North America including USA. He has an expert knowledge of commercial processes. Apart from Audit and Taxation he has a wide range of experience including heading a manufacturing unit in Bengal. He has also worked extensively in the Development sector with Donors like DFID, Oxfam, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and HIV/AIDS India Alliance. He is empanelled with World Bank as Short term Financial Consultant He also possesses a Masters Degree in Commerce and a Bachelors degree in Law from Calcutta University.

Prof. Gautam Chakravarti is an M.A (Economics) from Lucknow University and PGDM from IIM-Ahmedabad. A highly accomplished business leader with 40 years of experience in several sectors, like FMCG, Chemicals, Agro-inputs including Farm Equipment, Telecom, Textiles, Consulting and Private Equity. His extensive experience includes executive and leadership roles in functions like Commercial, Finance, HR, Business Development, Mergers &Acquisitions and Strategy. Besides he has held leadership positions in SBUs and as a Managing Director / CEO of companies. He has served in several large corporations like Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Reliance Communications and Mahindra & Mahindra. Besides, he has been with Blackstone India which is an affiliate of Blackstone Capital Partners, one of the world's largest Private equity firms. He served initially as Executive Director-Operations and then ran one of their listed portfolio companies as CEO for several years. Currently he is a visiting faculty at business schools in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore, apart from serving on Boards of 2 companies and on the Advisory Council of a professional services firm. He has deep interest in management training and executive education over many years and has contributed to in-company training in Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Mahindra & Mahindra. In recent years he has facilitated executive education programmes in several companies in India and in UPH, a University based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Mr.Sanjay Kumar B.Sc (IITKGP), M.Sc (IITB) PGDM (IIMC). Sanjay Kumar has a rich and diverse background and experience which has been gained by working for world class companies for the last 30 years. This experience has three highlights: hands on responsibilities... Sanjay Kumar has a rich and diverse background and experience which has been gained by working for world class companies for the last 30 years. This experience has three highlights: hands on responsibilities of sales and marketing, purchasing and operations, gained in India and abroad (Europe/Africa) while working for both MNC?s (Foseco and Unilever) and privately owned companies (Thapar and Arcelor Mittal). During this period, he has worked with 10 different products interacting with over 20 different industries and finally held the position of a CEO in Arcelor Mittal for the last 3 years before deciding to get back to India to take up teaching fulltime. Sanjay's interests encompass sociology, history, science and technology and geography towards developing an understanding of what makes institutions develop and grow .

, My area of current interest is in the creation and facilitation of customised corporate and institutional training workshops on ... Know More